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posted 14 years ago by normanfix524-1
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at the last scene , you can see that there are no sheet on Isabel's bed .
what i mean is , it looks like a bed where nobody sleeps on .
perhaps Isabel had actually died ?
that's why Isabel talks to Ana but we never see Ana talk to Isabel again ?

[–] oz_paulb 14 years ago

** Spoilers here **

Wow - I think you hit the nail on the head!

When I saw the empty bed, I was puzzled, but didn't put 2+2 together.

It makes sense that Isabel died - that's why the doctor talked about the traumatic experience she had been through.

[–] the_headspace 11 years ago

Two years too late here, but it could also simply be that since Ana was "sick", they put the other girl in another room.

[–] Bree_33 11 years ago

Since Ana was "sick", they put the other girl in another room.

Bingo!

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[–] chuck-526 10 years ago

since Ana was "sick", they put the other girl in another room

I agree too. This would have been standard parenting practice at the time.

At the same time, I think there's another reason too. Isabel has played too many tricks on Ana, and the easy cameraderie over the bedroom candle that we see at the beginning of the film has been broken. We see Isabel walk around the bed and look right into Ana's face, but Anna refused to talk to her.

That isn't why Isabel's bed was moved in the first place, but it might very well be why Isabel's bed isn't moved back sometime in the future (sometime after the movie ends).

[–] chuck-526 10 years ago

perhaps Isabel had actually died ?

I doubt it, because we see her in another scene later. She's laying in bed, and sees a shadow on the wall that's a combination of the post in the middle of the window and some tree branches outside. A child would most likely be scared, but Isabel just pulls the blankets up over her head.

The implication seems to be that she's left childhood (or childhood's left her).

...we never see Ana talk to Isabel again ?

We never see nor hear about Ana talking to or recognizing anybody again. It's not just an Isabel thing.

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It seems quite possible Isabel was primed for a "sexual awakening" and chose to begin sleeping in her own room, effectively "leaving childhood". She appears to be fairly near the age of puberty. Remember her scene earlier with spreading a drop of blood on her lips and looking at the effect in a mirror? Or the scene with both sisters washing up for school where she showed her fascination with shaving? The break in her relationship with Ana could have provided a convenient time to do something she had been leaning toward anyway.